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JB Malone Memorial, Wicklow Way. The establishment of the Ulster Way in Northern Ireland in the 1970s [5] prompted the creation of the Cospóir Long Distance Walking Routes Committee (now the 'National Trails Advisory Committee' of the Irish Sports Council) to establish a national network of long-distance trails in the Republic of Ireland. [6]
The completed route will interconnect existing walking routes: The Beara Way, the Sli Gaeltacht Mhuscrai, the North Cork Way, the Ballyhoura Way, the Multeen Way, the Ormond Way, the Hymany Way, the Suck Valley Way, the Lung Lough Gara Way, the Miners Way and Historical Trail, the Leitrim Way, the Cavan Way and the Ulster Way, ending with the Causeway Coast Way.
The formation of the European Union made transnational hiking trails possible. Today, the network consists of 12 paths and covers more than 65,000 kilometres (40,000 mi), crisscrossing Europe. In general, the routes connect and make use of existing national and local trails such as the GR footpaths.
The Ulster Way is a series of walking routes which encircles Northern Ireland. It was founded in the 1970s by Wilfrid Merydith Capper, [2] [3] who was inspired by Tom Stephenson's Pennine Way. [4] [5] The route was relaunched in 2009 by the Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland).
Ireland's greenways are off-road routes for walkers, cyclists and other non-motorised transport in Ireland, which are often created as rail trails on abandoned sections of the Irish rail network. In the Republic of Ireland , several greenway initiatives have been centrally funded by the Irish government . [ 1 ]
The range, part of the Reeks District, is a destination for mountain walkers and climbers and includes some of Ireland's most regarded walking routes such as the 15–kilometre Coomloughra Horseshoe, and the 26-kilometre MacGillycuddy's Reeks Ridge Walk that traverses the full range; it is estimated that over 140,000 people visit the range each ...
The Blackwater Way forms part of European walking route E8 which runs from Dursey Island in County Cork to Istanbul in Turkey. The Irish section incorporates the Wicklow Way, the South Leinster Way, the East Munster Way, the Blackwater Way and parts of the Kerry Way and the Beara Way. The Blackwater Way connects with the East Munster Way at ...
The Way is marked with the standard yellow "walking man" symbol used by long-distance trails in Ireland. [3] Sections where the Dublin Mountains Way crosses other trails are also signed "DMW". [ 3 ] The trail follows a series of lanes behind the pub, through the Tillystown area of Shankill, crossing the M11 motorway via a pedestrian bridge ...